28 June 2009
Promotion v spam
01/07/09 08:21 Filed in: Social
networking trends
I’ve been accused of spamming on Twitter.
No, no, it’s no use defending me, it’s probably right. There was this competition from the people at Moonfruit in which you retweet a message of theirs and you might, just might, win a Macbook laptop. Now, I’m never one to pass up a chance to win something worth hundreds, particularly when I’ve just bought one the previous day (I could wipe out the spend completely, think about it) - so of course I entered.
And immediately someone on Twitter retweeted it. Fair enough, it’s an open contest. But then someone said either I or the Moonfruit people were spamming everybody.
It’s certainly the case that I was repeating what someone else said, to people who didn’t necessarily want to see it. It’s equally true that other people might want to enter the thing and possibly win. (In fact it’s possible that the complainer will win, which would be a bit ironic).
I don’t know about this one. One retweet and one complaint probably cancel each other out. But it’ll be interesting to see whether this sort of promotion (from someone who often adds value to the Twitter community, I should add) will be popular in a year’s time.
No, no, it’s no use defending me, it’s probably right. There was this competition from the people at Moonfruit in which you retweet a message of theirs and you might, just might, win a Macbook laptop. Now, I’m never one to pass up a chance to win something worth hundreds, particularly when I’ve just bought one the previous day (I could wipe out the spend completely, think about it) - so of course I entered.
And immediately someone on Twitter retweeted it. Fair enough, it’s an open contest. But then someone said either I or the Moonfruit people were spamming everybody.
It’s certainly the case that I was repeating what someone else said, to people who didn’t necessarily want to see it. It’s equally true that other people might want to enter the thing and possibly win. (In fact it’s possible that the complainer will win, which would be a bit ironic).
I don’t know about this one. One retweet and one complaint probably cancel each other out. But it’ll be interesting to see whether this sort of promotion (from someone who often adds value to the Twitter community, I should add) will be popular in a year’s time.
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